Improvement in toy-guns



GEORGE sTAeKHoUsE.

Improvement in Toy-iGuns.

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GEOEGE sTAOKHOUsE, OE MOUNT WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY-GUNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,078, dated June 18,1872.

Specification describin ganew and Improved Toy-Gun, invented by GEORGESTAoKHoUsE, of Mount Washington, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania.

Figure l is a sectional side view of iny iinproved toy-gun. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal'section of the saine on the line c c, Fig. l..

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

This invention relates to a new toy-gun in which the trigger isconnected with a crankshaft, which carries a swinging target in suchmanner that the target is brought. to view whenever the trigger is drawnback, but withdrawn when the trigger is let go. The child will thereforealways see a target to practice onwithout any chance of hitting anddestroying it.

A in the drawing represents the stoel; Of the firearm. B is thespringtrigger and dart-propeller of the saine. Gis the barrel throughwhich the dart or missile is shot. To the end of an extension, D, of thebarrel is secured an upright plate, E, in front of the barrel, againstwhich plate the dart is invariably thrown by the spring-power of thetrigger.

The frequent loss of the dart, and injury by the same of other things,is thus avoided. A rod,'a7 extends forward from the trigger under theextension D, and connects with a crank, b, of a rock-shaft, d, whichhangs back of the plate E. To an arm, e, of the shaft d is secured apicture or device, f, which is, through a slot ofthe plate E, broughtforward to View whenever the trigger is drawn back preparatory tofiring; but the said picture is drawn behind the plate again by theforward motion of the trigger and before the dart can strike it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat- .ent-

l. The toy-gun, provided with the plate E forward of the barrel, as setforth.

2. The vibrating picture or device f connected with the rock-shaft d,rod a, and trigger B, and arranged to pass through a slot of the plateE, as set forth.

GEORGE STAGKHOUSE.

Witnesses:

JAA/nts DELANEY, JOHN MOVEIGH.

